Ellen Langer Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
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I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.
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How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
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I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory.
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So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
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I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
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Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
